Panic response may be behind deaths of Humboldt penguins, experts say It's extremely rare for penguins to drown, but a panic response to loud noise could explain why seven of the aquatic birds died at the Calgary Zoo this week, says an expert at the ...

Yesterday morning seven penguins were found dead at the Calgary Zoo in Canada. The cause of death? Drowning. "It's very bizarre," DJ Schubert, a wildlife biologist for the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) , told The Dodo. "It just seems so odd." ...

Photo: Calgary Zoo Watchdog group Zoocheck Canada is calling for surveillance cameras in all animal enclosures following the puzzling drowning deaths of several penguins at the Calgary Zoo. Zoo officials have said a colony of 22 Humboldt ...

WINSLOW, Maine, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A traveling zoo based in Maine said its star camel serves another, even more important role behind the scenes -- "seeing eye camel" for a blind horse. Ed Papsis of the Pony X-Press Zoo in Winslow said a horse named ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo aid on Friday a 16-year-old male panda had died from a lung tumour after fathering twin cubs born last summer. The Austrian zoo said Long Hui, who was born in China and moved with female Yang Yang to ...

LONDON ZOO has been forced to shut down its walk-through bird exhibit after an outbreak of avian flu in Europe to protect the birds from any diseases carried by humans. The zoo has had to cancel its daily free-flying bird demonstration, close its ...

BHOPAL: Central Zoo authority served notice to director of Van Vihar National park, Atul Strivastava for allowing thousands of marathoners inside the zoo leading to the violation of Recognition of Zoo Rules, 2009. The action was taken after wildlife ...

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